Pepsi One Soda Review

Pepsi One's origins do at least make some sense, but it's now rendered completely pointless with the addition of Diet Pepsi Max. Normally though, one should criticize the latter and hail it as redundant, but since the company advertises the newborn far more than the former, it gives the impression that its predecessor is forgotten. And to strengthen my argument, it seems Pepsi One is so disremembered that it wasn't even given the latest redesign. The packaging it does sport is okay though nothing particularly special, with its surprisingly clean and almost formal look. The naming makes sense, at least initially, but they can legally claim that this is calorie free, as anything containing less than five can, so it actually ends up being more confusing than it should or than it's worth.

Neither Coke or Pepsi ever really excited me, but when ever there is a gun to my head and I am forced to pick between the two I always opt for the latter, and the same goes for their respected diet brethren. Pepsi One though, despite using my favourite sweetener paring of sucralose and ace-k, fails to honestly improve upon the general failure of either the sugared or the traditional aspartame containing beverage. The fault is found in the actual cola taste, which here is just as boring as one sadly expects, but it does at least taste better than Diet Coke, as if that's a compliment. Everything is ferally influenced by a chemical characteristic, as for instance while cinnamon is present, it isn't properly functioning in the sense that you only get the vague taste of the spice rather than the kick of the spice. Vanilla also makes an anticipated appearance, and though it doesn't exactly scream loudly with authenticity, it does advertises some appreciated though faint creaminess towards its stern. An orange peel flavour with an edge of lime is noticed and the rearmost certainly adds pleasant depth to the initial, but the two citruses were not designed with the typical sour or tartness and instead are involved solely for increased intricacy. Regrettably though, nothing tastes as pronounced it should, as the previously mentioned idiosyncrasy censors much of the believability and creditability of everything. The sugariness is false and glaringly so, but it doesn't taste as shallow as one may expect, and it doesn't yield an unpleasant aftertaste and your palate is actually fairly clean afterward, which is faint and sadly its only praise.

Fifty four milligrams of caffeine and the usual suspects can be found in each can, though this is one of the few diet sodas that does explicitly contain calories, albeit an obvious one. In the end, Pepsi One is a stupefyingly inessential extension of the line, though that isn't to say that the quality of the trademark product is much better.

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